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TRUMPET SALUTATIONS
FOR SIX Bbb TRUMPETS
BY NIGEL COOMBES
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 Trumpet Salutations
For six B-flat Trumpets

To the Irish Guards Fanfare Trumpeters

By

Nigel Coombes
Staff Arranger, HM Band of the Irish Guards
London

Given by the composer to the International Trumpet Guild as a supplement to the

January 2005 ITG Journal
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Trumpet Salutations
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Nigel Coombes
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Lance Corporal Nigel Coombes joined the British Army as a trumpet player in 1990 at the age of
16. He spent the next year in Bovington, Dorset, with the Army Junior School of Music. The follow-
ing year he was relocated to Kneller Hall (Royal Military School of Music) where he continued his
instrumental and academic training. On the completion of his training, he took his first regular post-
ing with the band of the 1st Battalion of the Staffordshire Regiment in January 1992. He returned to
Kneller Hall in 1994 to change his first instrumental study to clarinet. After ten months he had the
honour of joining one of Her Majesty’s Foot Guards Bands, The Band of the Irish Guards. He is still
with the same band today and has recently been appointed Staff Arranger.
As well as performing for high profile functions with the Army, Coombes works in and around
the London area as a freelance performer on clarinet and bass clarinet. He gets most of his musical
satisfaction from managing and performing with his own professional clarinet quartet.
Most of Nigel Coombes’ arrangements are for wind band, but he does devote a lot of his spare
time to arranging music for various chamber groups, much of which is either for clarinet quartet, or
for the various brass sections of the Irish Guards Band. He gets great enjoyment in particular from
scoring for trumpet ensembles because even though he no longer plays the trumpet himself, he
believes you never really lose the love for it once you have let it into your life.

Lance Corporal Nigel Coombes, Staff Arranger—HM Band of the Irish

Guards. With Gary Mortenson, International Trumpet Guild Publications
Editor. Regimental Chapel, Chelsea Barracks, London, April 1st, 2004

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